Lamb Shank Mole with Mealworms on Top Chef Canada Finale
Whether you’re a foodie or not, the Season 4 Finale of Top Chef Canada was an edge-of-your-seat experience! And whether you’re an entomophagist (someone who eats bugs) or not, things got mighty interesting around the 28:25 mark. The three remaining chefs, Rene Rodriguez, Terry Salmond, and Rich Francis, were first tasked with the Quickfire Challenge […]
Cricket Protein and Entomo Farms: In the News
Jarrod, Darren and Ryan Goldin, the founders of Next Millennium Farms, were interviewed by the Toronto Star! Here is the article that appears in the Business section of the Toronto Star on May 17th, 2014. It is a great summary of the business to this point, and captures the vision- from a global environmental viewpoint […]
Chocolate Chirp Cookie Competition
Next Millennium Farms‘ own Ento-Chef, Caryn, mixed up a batch of Chocolate Chirp Cookies- that’s right Chocolate CHIRP Cookies and Brownies- What makes them ‘chirp’ you ask? Well, a little bit of cricket flour, of course! Due to the delicious aroma that floated from the kitchen, she had to bat off her family from the […]
Playing up the Fabulous Factor – Eating Insects the Yummy Way
It’s about that time of day. Yes, that time where I trawl the internet looking for interesting articles on entomophagy (eating insects). I came upon this great article-“Insect flour or otherwise cooking with bugs (and avoiding the ick factor)” The article is short. The comments are interesting. The one that stands out the […]
Bugs for Breakfast
Ya, I Eat Bugs, So What?
Let me start by saying that I never thought those words would ever come out of my mouth- EVER! Most westerners would agree with me, right? There were times when I’d be jogging, and a little fly would fly into my mouth (because for some reason it gapes while I’m expending lots of energy), and […]
Lisa Simpson – Vegetarian Entomophagist A.K.A. Bug Eater
In Season 24, episode 5 of The Simpsons (Penny Wiseguys), Lisa Simpson joined theProtein Revolution, and turned to entomophagy because she was experiencing iron deficiency due to her vegetarian diet. First of all, I love the fact that this episode aired back in 2012. That’s pretty cool. Second of all, it touched on an interesting […]
Join the Protein Revolution
Fire up the BBQ! Eat a Shish-kaBUG!
Eating Bugs Does the World Good
It might seem as though there has been a lot of recent talk around eating insects. While this is somewhat true- I mean, come on, they were just eating bugs on an episode ofThe Doctors, and crickets were just one of the ingredients on last week’s episode ofTop Chef Canada (season 4, episode 7), the […]